| contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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| (noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
| (noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
| (noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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| (noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| contritely | (adverb) in a rueful manner | Synonyms: remorsefully, ruefully |
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| contriteness | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contrition |
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| contrition | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contriteness |
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| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| control | (noun) the activity of managing or exerting control over something | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | - |
| (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: controller |
| (noun) power to direct or determine | - |
| (noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, mastery |
| (noun) a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | Synonyms: control condition |
| (noun) the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | - |
| (noun) a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | - |
| (noun) a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance |
| (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: master |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by using a duplicate register for comparison | - |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: keep in line, manipulate |
| (verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: command |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: verify |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: restrict |
| controllable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: governable |
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| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| controller | (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: control |
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| (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, comptroller |
| (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: restrainer |
| controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| controversially | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: polemically |
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| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| coquetry | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
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| corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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| corticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin |
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| cosmolatry | (noun) the worship of the cosmos | - |
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| cosmotron | (noun) a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protons | - |
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| counterattraction | (noun) a rival attraction | - |
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| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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| country | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: land, nation |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: land, state |
| (noun) an area outside of cities and towns | Synonyms: rural area |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: area |
| countryfied | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, rustic |
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| countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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| (noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| countryside | (noun) rural regions | - |
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| countrywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: nationwide |
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| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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| craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| cyclotron | (noun) an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles | - |
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| cytophotometric | (adjective) of or relating to the study of cells by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytophotometrically | (adverb) by cytophotometric means | - |
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| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| decalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| decametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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| decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralization | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralisation |
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| (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentalisation |
| decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| decentration | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentering |
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| decilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: deciliter, dl |
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| decimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimeter, dm |
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| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| decontrol | (verb) relax or remove controls of | - |
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| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| defenestration | (noun) the act of throwing someone or something out of a window | - |
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| dekalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dkl |
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| dekametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dkm |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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| demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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| demonstrable | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: incontrovertible |
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| (adjective) capable of being demonstrated or proved | Synonyms: provable |
| demonstrably | (adverb) in an obvious and provable manner | Synonyms: incontrovertibly, provably |
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| demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
| demonstrated | (adjective) having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
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| demonstration | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: presentation, presentment |
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| (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: manifestation |
| (noun) a show of military force or preparedness | - |
| (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demo |
| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: monstrance |
| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
| demonstratively | (adverb) in a demonstrative manner | - |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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| (noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
| (noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
| denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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| denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| dentistry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | Synonyms: dental medicine, odontology |
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| derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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| destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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| destroy | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: demolish |
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| (verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably | Synonyms: ruin |
| (verb) put (an animal) to death | Synonyms: put down |
| (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destruct |
| destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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| destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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| (adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
| destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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